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The Saudi Football Revolution
- Thread starter BenTal
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Batman
Hard on crime, soft on Stan
Country: USA
Player:Nwaneri
I thought Xhaka was going to Saudi? The plan was for @BergMan to set up his base camp to stalk Xhaka from in @Sapient Hawk 's garden.
Sapient Hawk
Hates sharing cyberspace with Tets' bootlickers
Country: Saudi Arabia
Gun ownership here is virtually impossible without connections & going through a mountain-range of red-tape (something we're all thankful for) but if I knew @BergMan was within close proximity to where my kids live, I'd do everything in my power to acquire an M1 Abrams
Sanchez11
Fs FC
Country: England
Cant they buy Kai or Leo ffs
Yousif Arsenal
Was on Vinai's payroll; misses 4th place trophy 🏆
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
The corruption will eventually catch up. Might be 5 years, might be ten. It's unsustainable. Doesn't even touch on the relationships between FSG and the Saudis or Boehly and the Saudis. The rot will slowly turn English football into what Serie A is today.
Country: Bangladesh
Player:White
Do you actually believe that?
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
Sure do. Once you slowly lose integrity in the game interest is going to fall. Multi club ownerships are also a problem. The transfer window is slowly turning into a form of professional wrestling. Dodgy player trades, the Felix transfer to Saudi is total corruption, the whole Isak Nunez saga is laughable.
Flying Okapis
Most Well-Known Member
What's unsustainable?
The PL clubs are owned by billionaires, I always find the 'sustainability' fight a bit of a joke.
Country: Bangladesh
Player:White
Idk this whole cheaters never prosper thing sounds like copium to me. I mean it’s not like the word is ruled by the United States of crooks and assholes or anything like that.
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
Nothing to do with finances. When the integrity of sport gets lost interest will drop, like it has in Serie A.
Flying Okapis
Most Well-Known Member
Serie A had a hell of a lot more problems than just integrity.
They had massive financial problems, missed oppurtunites and lack of investment and infrastructure failings.
They've also had shocking ownership across many clubs and a brand of football that is dull.
Yeah, the scandals didnt help, but a lot of the leagues failings are due to finances.
Artisan
Not Emery's Old Pal
This is just nonsense though? There isn't any incentive for Saudis to help out Pool to buy a player they don't want to sell.
Yousif Arsenal
Was on Vinai's payroll; misses 4th place trophy 🏆
It's all tied and maybe just taking advantage of situation. Newcastle not buying Wissa and Sesko also keeping Isak that not happening
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
Higher fee for Isak after the fee for Nunez is pumped up.
Synical
Miss Bold Superstitious [B/]
Country: England
Are you saying there is no possibility of corruption? What do you base that belief on?
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
Martinvonkeown
Active Member
Country: USA
What a coincidence.
Country: Bangladesh
Player:White
No lol, I’m saying I don’t believe that it will catch up to them. We don’t live in a world where bad things happen to bad people etc.
Kuroske
Well-Known Member
Yeh, it is just like how other PL clubs is inflating transfer fee's for the academy players. 20m pounds for someone who didn't have any first team experience etc.
Think they will have some sort of agreement that Isak will be sold for maximum value or maybe exceed the what he is valued. Maybe 150m plus addons, and that Saudi club will buy Nunez for 80m.
For Liverpool, it doesnt matter much. This loophole will be exploited more by Newcastle in the future.
